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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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